Tuesday, April 27, 2010

IN FLIGHT (Poem 10)

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Was I summoned to do jobs-so-high?
As a sentinel from the Sky?
A mobile warrior
Who shames and fears not
In bringing forth victories
For mankind’s
Enshrinement
In the glorious halls
Of Kosmos?

If so, then

Mankind!
You are my visible shield!

A shield that never dies
Is worthy of bigness
As colossal
As the universe’s entirety.

A-shielded let me then make
Flights!
Flights!
Upon the planet’s vast horizons
To pursue
What my soul
Has been in quest for.

[Writ. 23 Aug. 1987, Univ. of the Philippines, Quezon City, M.Manila.]

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